Posts by nichomach

So...this only works...

...if your phone's micro usb connector is on the bottom of the device, by all appearances.

I disagree

No movie AT ALL would be better than a Hollywood trainwreck.

1366x768?

Again? Sheesh...

LEWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!!!

Alright, what are you playing at?

That's pretty

damned good going, hats off to them. I think for once the CEO's hyperbole...isn't.

You know, I was with you, Lewis...

...right up until the point where you launched into your standard Jeremiad against keeping the most capable strike aircraft we have as opposed to binning them for some asthmatic puffer-jets. Once again, it bears repeating (as I've said elsewhere) that "we have kept Tornado, since it is the only truly globally deployable and fully capable strike aircraft that we have, and that we have crews for. We are scrapping Harrier, because Tornado can carry anything Harrier can further, faster and a lot more of it, as well as carrying a lot of stuff that Harrier can't. That will leave us with a globally deployable air superiority fighter (Typhoon) that has a useful strike capability as well, and a globally deployable strike aircraft (Tornado) that can (with refuelling) carry anything we want to drop to anywhere we want to drop it.".

I'm still absolutely with you on the correctness of adopting cat-and-wire carriers, though.

Hmmm...

From the comments on the link, I think I now know the Spanish for "This thread is useless without video"...

So...

...bumping up the national debt to stimulate the economy by getting private companies to front the cash is BAD when Labour do it, but GOOD when the Conservatives do it. Glad we've got that straight.

@The BigYin

1. Yes, but will be able to refuelled at sea, has better catapults (leccy-magnet flyboy flingers FTW!).

2. MAY not be used, could be used in a different role (helo carrier and so forth)

3. No. There is no navalised Typhoon, nor has there been any serious plan for one.

4. We have adopted a better technology that will result in planes capable of carrying more payload further with at least the same other performance characteristics as F35B (speed and so forth)

5. No, we have kept Tornado, since it is the only truly globally deployable and fully capable strike aircraft that we have, and that we have crews for. We are scrapping Harrier, because Tornado can carry anything Harrier can further, faster and a lot more of it, as well as carrying a lot of stuff that Harrier can't. That will leave us with a globally deployable air superiority fighter (Typhoon) that has a useful strike capability as well, and a globally deployable strike aircraft (Tornado) that can (with refuelling) carry anything we want to drop to anywhere we want to drop it.

6. No. We have no fixed wing naval air, this is true, but the QE will fix that (although not as much as we'd like, I agree). We have a very viable air force, that's capable of operating globally, albeit that there are critical weaknesses in some areas (maritime reconnaissance and attack, for instance. If you want to bitch about something, bitch about the cancellation of Nimrod followed by the Navy's announcement that due to that, it's spunking another billion pounds on its search for something to fill the gap).

There's some elements of truth in what you're saying, but a lot is inaccurate.

Listed improvements upon Grand Slam and Tallboy

"boasts precision guidance", eh?

http://www.rafactive.co.uk/e27/images/e27cheshire%20(1).jpg - We've got your precision guidance right here...

Honestly

"The company admits that its solution will only work from around four centimetres (compared to 10cm for a normal NFC card)" actually sounds like a _good_ thing to me...

Oh dear...

"The solution has to be based on "typical local government processes""

So it'll only clean up its trash bin every two weeks, be completely unavailable except when noone wants to use it, completely ignore user requests, keep demanding more and more money whilst becoming slower and less responsive, display increasingly threatening but incomprehensible messages to innocent users and kill off services that are in use without explanation. Outstanding!

Still don't fancy

trying to finish Midnight's Children, but full marks to the man.

Not seeing why the sneery tone's...

...being adopted. IF this works, and if it doesn't compromise the wine, then why not? Cheaper, easier for the customer, handier for recycling, what's not to like?

It would be difficult...

...to improve upon what AC @ 14:10 said, so I shan't try, but will add another voice in support of the view that your carping at NGOs, whose raison d'etre is to campaign for the legislative and administrative process to act to limit or eliminate harm, for not entirely supplanting that legislative and administrative process is idiotically illogical. EP & GW did not "want this job", they were campaigning for recognition that "this job" needed doing and for international action and resourcing to ensure that it was done. Despite your assertion that "we have this now", we plainly don't, unless your contention is that a US statute has somehow acquired global jurisdiction, and will somehow be enforced by some mythical international agency that exists nowhere outside of your head.

We have some legislation that affects the United States, but has no jurisdictional reach beyond there. So should we be carping at EP & GW for not enforcing that legislation there, perhaps? They have no authority or resourcing to do that, but I would note that they have been campaigning and pressuring the SEC (whose fucking job it is, by the way; a point of which you seem blissfully unaware) to finalize the very rules that you're complaining about the lack of. Whilst fighting the US Chamber of Commerce who want to gut those very same rules. You might try looking at http://www.globalwitness.org/library/law-curb-conflict-minerals-under-attack-chamber-commerce or http://www2.americanprogress.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=154 , for instance, and then direct some of your acid barbs at the people who are the fucking problem rather than at the people campaigning for the solution. Having done that, you might then consider whether pressing for international action to enact and enforce similar rules might be a good idea, especially since we have organizations like the EU and the UN, whose job it ALSO fucking is to enact and enforce such legislation. Or you could, you know, just go back to whingeing about how horrible the people who campaign for legislation and enforcement are.

You keep calling tape "moribund"

or "a dying medium" or "obsolete", but it rather looks as though nobody aside from those pimping VTLs and cloud backups agrees with you. Tape's here for a while yet, I think.

OK...

...now we need to know if they were doing the same here.

Whilst I didn't immediately think...

...of anal bleaching as some of the posters above (I must have led a very sheltered life...), the actual story here is creepy enough. Seriously, why on earth would anyone DO this?

Icon's eyes were brown before being flashed...

The words...

..."petard" "own" and "hoist" leap to mind...

Petition...

...duly signed.

I'm with Dave Ashton, above

I have no use for i-anything, but really, some of the commentards on here should stop, step back, take a good hard look at themselves and ask themselves if they really, truly, want to be, and look like, that much of a cunt. That includes the inevitable deluge of people who think using the term "sky fairy" is still funny.

As to whether The Reg should have published it, it was released to the public so the family were obviously happy with it being published, it was a story covering the last moments of a hugely influential man in the techie field (albeit one that I dislike), and really? If you care THAT MUCH about the few brief moments you spent reading the piece before you went off on your spittle flecked little rants, apply for a refund. On your free online journal. Which no-one made you read.

Am I the only one that read...

..."an Aldershot resident reported trying to call her mother-in-law only to find herself connected to a fax machine." and thought "RESULT!"?

There is a certain wry amusement...

...to be derived from watching a bunch of smug, self-satisfied tossers happily decrying the irrationality of churchgoers supposedly blocking the Wispire project when in fact it's the Christians (the Anglican Diocese of Norwich, FFS) trying to get it installed for the benefit of the surrounding community while a SECULAR organization (ESUK) tries to stop them...

I liked

"We are investigating with them why equipment that we have a destruction certificate for was subsequently sold online."

Destruction certificate should equal "this kit has been irrevocably folded, spindled, mutilated and minced"; if the firm has certified that and then gone on to sell it, that could well be a criminal matter.